Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Pennsylvania Report Shows the Catholic Church is not doing a good job of "Cleaning House" when it comes to pedophiles



Breaking News  ---  "Pa. Catholic Church sex abuse report names hundreds of priests, accuses leaders of cover-up: 'They hid it all.' "----  Philadelphia Enquirer/  Philly.com


This is the official Grand Jury Report for most of the Pennsylvania Dioceses, which the local Roman Catholic hierarchy and many named priests have tried to suppress  ---  it's been released under court order with a few names and details redacted


Latest blow-up of the generations-long scandal of  Roman Catholic priestly child abuse  ---  AGAIN PUTS THE  >>> SPOTLIGHT <<<  ON  STATE SENATOR MARTIN GOLDEN'S REFUSAL TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND OTHER VICTIMS


According to an article in today’s  “Morning Call”  ---  “A scathing grand jury report released Tuesday reveals accusations of sexual abuse against 301 priests, whose actions went unchecked for decades in dioceses across Pennsylvania, including Allentown….   Instead of reporting pedophiles, dioceses routinely shuffled them from parish to parish, enabling them to prey upon new victims, the document shows. The statewide grand jury spent two years on what may be the most exhaustive investigation of the church taken on by a state. It covered allegations in the Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton dioceses, which collectively minister to more than 1.7 million Catholics….”  (See  “Scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report accuses hundreds of priests of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children”  by  Emily Opilo & Tim Darragh,  8/14/18,  The Morning Call/ News/ Breaking News    [http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-grand-jury-report-catholic-dioceses-20180612-story.html#]).

The piece by Morning Call reporters Emily Opilo and Tim Darragh went on to note that  “….  The 23 members of the grand jury took testimony from dozens of witnesses.  But it was in the church’s own files — more than half a million pages of internal diocesan documents in “secret archives”  —  that the grand jury found the names of more than a thousand children who were victimized, most of them boys….   ‘We believe that the real number — of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward — is in the thousands,’ the report noted….   Several victims who joined Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a news conference in Harrisburg wiped away tears as a video of their stories played….  Shapiro said the abuse was “systematically covered up by church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican.” He said the faith was weaponized to use against victims and to protect the institution at all cost….  The 884-page redacted grand jury report was due to be released by the end of June, but the state Supreme Court stalled its release when more than a dozen of those named in the report filed objections, claiming the allegations would damage their reputations while denying them their constitutional right to due process….   Every redaction, Shapiro said, represents a story that needs to be told….”  

Cardinal Bevilacqua, formerly of Brooklyn.....

What is told in the Morning Call article are several stories detailing the abomination of Roman Catholic priestly sexual abuse over a protracted period;  even more abominable is the systematic coverup by the hierarchy.  Most notable to me  were reports of specific directives by Philadelphia’s Cardinal Bevilacqua, formerly of the Brooklyn Diocese, based on Church documents and the testimony of his top aid, who was since elevated to be Bishop of Allentown .
There are similar reports in several other notable newspapers and across all news mediums.

Tell Marty Golden that he has to change his position on the New York State Child Protection Act of 2018....



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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does a New York State Senator from Brooklyn have to do with a news story coming out of Pennsylvania?

Anonymous said...

In the New York State Senate, State Senator Martin Golden acts as an agent and operative of the very same Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that tried to keep all of the abominations in all of the dioceses in Pennsylvania secret. His obstructionism allows similar criminal abuses throughout New York State to remain secret and go unpunished. Golden is an aider and abettor in ongoing sex crimes all over his own district and the rest of the state.

Anonymous said...

If protecting abused children bankrupts a major religion's earthly institutions ... let them bring it up with their God.

Anonymous said...

If they can't face their victims and accusers, how are they going to be able to face their God. Besides, about 25% of the clergy are not believers of any kind.

Anonymous said...

Pedophiles in the catholic church is not exactly breaking news.

Anonymous said...

The news 4:23 is Golden cant explain why he blocked legislation that would expose pedophiles in New York.

We know why he shut down the speed cameras. He speeds. The pedophile issue makes me wonder.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "WHY AREN'T YOU ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS" EDITION

TO: ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 1:55 PM" & "... AT 4:23 PM"

IF STATE SENATOR MARTY GOLDEN WERE BLOCKING LEGISLATION THAT WOULD EXPOSE PRESENT AND PAST MOBSTERS STILL LIVING IN NEW YORK FOR THEIR MOB OPERATIONS IN NYS, WOULDN'T YOU BE OUTRAGED ?

IF STATE SENATOR MARTY GOLDEN WERE BLOCKING LEGISLATION THAT WOULD EXPOSE AL QAEDA OPERATIVES LIVING IN NEW YORK, ALLOW THE VICTIMS OF THOSE AL QUEDA OPERATIVES TO BRING PRIVATE LAWSUITS FOR DAMAGES, AS WELL AS PROTECT POTENTIAL FUTURE AL QAEDA VICTIMS IN NYS, WOULDN'T YOU BE OUTRAGED ???

IF STATE SENATOR MARTY GOLDEN WERE BLOCKING LEGISLATION THAT WOULD ALLOW HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND OTHER NAZI WAR VICTIMS LIVING IN NEW YORK TO BRING ACTIONS AGAINST PROVEN NAZI WAR CRIMINALS LIVING IN NYS, WOULDN'T YOU BE OUTRAGED ?????


Well, Marty Golden is doing exactly that.

The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report proves that pedophilia has been rampant in the Roman Catholic CHurch in America for decades, probably generations..... It also shows that there has been a conspiratorial, systematic and illegal coverup coordinated both at the local diocesan level and internationally up the line to/from Rome. It specifically catalogues the sordid stories of hundreds of priests in every diocese in Pennsylvania, and the terrible damage done to over a thousand young victims in that state (Note, however, that the Pennsylvania reported estimates that the actual number of victims in Pennsylvania alone is more likely to have been several thousand).

This Pennsylvania report is additional concrete evidence that in very significant ways, the Roman Catholic Church is an ongoing corrupt entity, and an entity that it should be targeted for criminal prosecution and civilian suits for damages under RICO..... Even more that, the international aspect of this long-term and large-scale attack on Americans shows that the Roman Catholic Church needs to be declared an international terrorist organization with the full might of the U.S. and other anti-terrorist governments brought to bear against it.

The legislation pending in New York and being blocked by State Senator Golden is so much less and smaller than that --- how can he claim any moral reason or other justification to block it ?

Anonymous said...

Hynes had a thing for pedophiles. But those were orthodox jews.
Golden has a thing for pedophiles. But those are priests.
Hynes and Golden had a thing for each other.

Anonymous said...

Hynes had a thing for pedophile priests too.
All the prosecutions of pedophile priests in the Diocese of Brooklyn, which is Brooklyn and Queens, occurred in Queens. None were in Brooklyn. Is everybody supposed to think that all the pedophile priests in the Brooklyn Diocese were assigned to Queens parishes?
The Hynes-Golden thing has another connector, Mike Long's NY State Conservative Party. He is worse than Golden on this issue.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “SIGNS OF THE TIMES” EDITION

MAKE NO MISTAKE --- THIS IS NATIONAL NEWS --- AND THAT’S WHERE THE TIMES PUT IT
“THE GRAND JURY REPORT IS THE GOVERNMENT’S BROADEST LOOK YET IN THE UNITED STATES AT CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE CHURCH” --- NY TIMES

YES, THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE IS ONE OF THE “SIGNS OF THE TIMES” --- THE END TIMES OF THE CHURCH ON EARTH FORTOLD IN THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS --- IT WILL HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN THE REST OF THE WORLD GOING FORWARD

Here was first take by the New York Times on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, released yesterday --- “Avoid scandal. Use euphemisms. Ask inadequate questions. Lock complaints away in a ‘secret archive.’ Above all, don’t tell the police…. Those are some of the tactics that leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania used to conceal child sexual abuse by priests over a period of 70 years, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday…. ‘It’s like a playbook for concealing the truth,’ said the grand jury, whose investigation identified more than 1,000 sexual abuse victims in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania…. Special agents from the F.B.I.’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime reviewed evidence collected by the grand jury, the report says, and identified a series of practices that were regularly used by the six dioceses to cover up reports of abuse…. ‘While each church district had its idiosyncrasies, the pattern was pretty much the same,’ the report says. ‘The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid “scandal.” That is not our word, but theirs; it appears over and over again in the documents we recovered.’…” (See “Pennsylvania Grand Jury Says Church Had a ‘Playbook for Concealing the Truth’ ” by Scott Dodd, 8/14.18, NY Times/ U.S. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/pennsylvania-child-abuse-catholic-church.html]).

This article shows very succinctly how bad things really are with the Roman Catholic Church and its handling of pedophile priests, their victims and all of its members. It’s very, very bad; some might even say Apocalyptically so…..

Anonymous said...

Please don’t let this deter you from the fact that together Saperstein & Denaro knocked on their 1,000th door on the Upper Westside!

Anonymous said...

Who taught Denaro how to ring doorbells?

Anonymous said...

I 've been ringing doorbells before they came with instructions.

- Ray Denaro (I dont blog anonymously)

Galewyn Massey said...

NOW BACK TO THE ISSUE AT HAND --- CATHOLIC CHURCH CORRUPTION AND PEDOPHILE PRIESTS AND BISHOPS AND CARDINALS.....

UPDATE: THE “WA-PO EDITORIAL” EDITION

I TOLD YOU THIS WAS NATIONAL NEWS --- THE CIVIC OUTRAGE IS PALPABLE --- FOR EXAMPLE THIS EDITORIAL IN TODAY’S >>> WASHINGTON POST <<< TYING THE PENNSYLVANIA REPORT TO OTHER RECENT CATHOLIC CHURCH SCANDALS


"THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S decades-long practice of enabling and systematically covering up the rape and molestation of children by priests is by now sickeningly familiar. Yet the scale of abuse; the breadth and depth of trauma inflicted by predators wearing Roman collars; and the coldbloodedness of senior church figures zealous in their resolve to protect the church but indifferent to the suffering of minors, retain their power to shock the conscience…. So it was Tuesday when Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court released a massive report on decades of alleged abuse in six of the state’s eight dioceses, where nearly 2 million Catholics live today. The report, the culmination of a two-year grand jury investigation supervised by the state attorney general’s office, lays out what amounts to a criminal conspiracy, breathtaking in its scope, reaching from parishes and parochial schools to the Vatican…. The report names some 300 accused predator priests, who allegedly abused at least 1,000 victims. The jurors noted they stuck to cases that were documented and provable; they said the real number, both of priests and victims, is likely much higher. Yet even as the findings were published, the coverup continues: The report is heavily redacted, owing to ongoing litigation by unidentified clergymen and others seeking to block publication of certain names. That, Attorney General Josh Shapiro noted, is a coverup of a decades-long coverup…. The conspiracy — as in Boston and practically every major city in the United States and many overseas — involved bishops, archbishops and even cardinals. Among those named in the report is Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, archbishop of Washington who was bishop of Pittsburgh for 18 years, until 2006. Mr. Wuerl vowed zero tolerance for predator priests following the Boston Globe’s revelations, in 2002, of widespread abuse and coverups. Yet the Pennsylvania report documents several cases in which Mr. Wuerl seems more interested in protecting than in fully exposing clergymen who had molested children…. Even as apologists for the Vatican and the clergy continue peddling the myth that the Catholic Church’s pedophile scandals simply reflect society’s problems, the weight of evidence is overwhelming proof to the contrary. Thousands of American priests weaponized faith, as Mr. Shapiro said, taking advantage of their status and access to children to prey on them. They left uncountable thousands of victims in their wake…."
[This WaPo Editorial is continued in the comment below] (See "The scale of the Catholic Church’s criminality still shocks" by WaPo Editorial Board, 8/14/18 (Print Editions 8/15/18), Washington Post/ Opinion/ Editorial [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scale-of-the-catholic-churchs-criminality-still-shocks/2018/08/14/779c5f38-a006-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.be599c932d27]).

Galewyn Massey said...

[CONTINUED FROM THE COMMENT ABOVE --- "UPDATE... WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL..."]

".... Pope Francis lately has made some positive moves, including accepting the resignations of bishops in Chile and removing Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, following allegations of abuse. But the pope has proved unwilling and possibly unable to take the sweeping steps required to implement a genuine zero-tolerance policy. In the United States, the church continues to block legislative reforms in state capitals that would allow victims and prosecutors to seek justice for abuse that occurred decades ago. Despite the massive landscape of sexual assaults painted by the grand jury, it produced criminal charges against just two priests — both because many of the accused predator priests are already dead and because most of the allegations are too old to prosecute under state law…. The Pennsylvania report is the most comprehensive X-ray to date of the church’s corruption in one state. It should not be the last. Even after more than 15 years of revelations, there is more to know — and much more to fix...." (See "The scale of the Catholic Church’s criminality still shocks" by WaPo Editorial Board, 8/14/18 (Print Editions 8/15/18), Washington Post/ Opinion/ Editorial [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scale-of-the-catholic-churchs-criminality-still-shocks/2018/08/14/779c5f38-a006-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.be599c932d27]).

Anonymous said...

The 4:23 comment was wrong and stupid. The news is the cover-up. Plus Gale had it on line hours before the New York Times did.

Galewyn Massey said...

MY NOTE AND HIGHLIGHT: THE "THIS MEANS NEW YORK STATE SENATOR MARTIN J. GOLDEN" EDITION

THERE IS ONE PARTICULAR SEGMENT OF THE WA-PO EDITORIAL THAT STOOD OUT TO ME --- HERE IT IS:
".... IN THE UNITED STATES, THE CHURCH CONTINUES TO BLOCK LEGISLATIVE REFORMS IN STATE CAPITALS THAT WOULD ALLOW VICTIMS AND PROSECUTORS TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR ABUSE THAT OCCURRED DECADES AGO...."


That language in the editorial of a national newspaper of record couldn't be clearer. It directly refers to the kind of dirty work done by Marty Golden for years on behalf of his corrupt masters in the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

For me it's personal --- Marty Golden lied to my face about his position on child protective legislation. I could forgive a misstatement or two --- however, either Mr. Golden was wilfully ignorant and obstinate, or he was only doing what he was told to do by Chairman Mike Long of the Conservative Party and Bishop Nicky Mars, the Catholic Boss of Brooklyn.

Ah, they're all Cathedral Club insiders on this.....

Anonymous said...

Ray (who doesn't blog anonymously) has been around in politics, what? Three years? Now he's an expert on grassroots canvassing? Typical millennial arrogance.

Anonymous said...

7:52 wasn’t me..it’s actually 2 years but I don’t claim to be an expert on anything either way =) except being awesome!

-Ray Denaro (you sunsa beaches took my tagline, now I gotta think of a new one)

Anonymous said...

Two years, three years, used to be you got trained to petition at that point. Now they make you a district leader, or county chairman, with that kind of experience.

Anonymous said...

That anyone thinks ringing doorbells without instructions is something to be proud of, is just sad. Like most things in life, there is blundering approach, and there is a smart approach. I think we know which this guy is using.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "ALL THE NON-RESPONSIVE COMMENTERS" EDITION

TO: ALL THE NON-RESPONSIVE COMMENTERS, OF COURSE

I GUESS TAKING ON THE ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF ROME, AND ALL OF ITS LOCAL PRELATES, PRIESTS, PLIANT FOLLOWERS, AND ENTRENCHED POLITICAL SERVANTS IS A FEARSOME AND DAUNTING ENDEAVOR --- AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE WEAK IN MIND, BODY AND/OR SOUL

TODAY'S NY POST DID ANOTHER BASHING OF MARTY GOLDEN'S ILK IN THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE OVER THE SPEED-CAMS BY SCHOOLS AGAIN --- THE BEST OF IT WAS THESE FIVE (5) WORDS >>> "WITH YOUNG LIVES AT STAKE" <<<

Here's the part about Golden's cronies in the Republican controlled NY State Senate from the Post's editors:

".... With barely weeks to renew the city’s school-zone speed-cam authority before schools reopen Sept. 5, all the politicians are still playing Kabuki theater.... The latest: City Hall’s announcement that the cameras — which still work, but can’t trigger tickets unless the legislature acts — have recorded 132,235 speed racers zooming through school zones at more than 10 mph above the limit since July 25.... That’s just cause for lawmakers to re-up the city’s ticketing power. Team de Blasio reports that a full 81 percent of vehicles issued one speed-cam violation from 2014 to 2016 never got a second one. In all, speeding fell by 63 percent in zones with the cameras.... [Although other things might be tried] the better option is for state leaders to grow up. Senate [Republican] Majority Leader John Flanagan says he’s willing to restore (but not expand) the speed cams, as long as Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises not to exploit the required special session to grandstand on abortion.... Cuomo’s been saying he won’t call lawmakers back unless Flanagan first promises to pass a speed-cam bill. Why not just call his bluff? Summon the Legislature for the express purpose of having Flanagan pass a renewal bill — which after all has broad bipartisan Senate support.... The Assembly, which has only passed an expansion bill, will have to pass it, too — but the votes are obviously there. Then lawmakers can take up the expansion question next year — after elections that could well make Flanagan the minority leader.... With young lives at stake, someone has to blink...."

BTW, the NY Post also did a feature article about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury pedophile report.....

Anonymous said...

Gail, if Marty Golden switches his opposition to the New York State Child Protection Act of 2018 and the authorization and expansion of speed cameras in school zones, will you switch your opposition to his re-election?

Anonymous said...

Best quote I've heard on this issue:

The Catholic Church preaches about eternity, but hides behind the statute of limitations.

Galewyn Massey said...

THE "FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 5:01 PM"

YES, THAT IS AN APT QUOTE

LEST ANYBODY THINK THAT THIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH -- PEDOPHILES RANT IS STRICTLY A SECULAR LIBERAL SCREED --- ON THIS ROMAN CATHOLIC FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION (WHICH STANDS FOR MANY THINGS --- INCLUDING PAPAL INFALLIBILITY) PEOPLE SHOULD READ ROD DREHER'S REPORT ABOUT THE PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY REPORT IN "THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE"

According to Rod Dreher --- "The Pennsylvania grand jury report is out: read it here. It examines 70 years of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in six of the state’s eight dioceses, and 70 years of cover-up. Josh Shapiro, the state Attorney General, said in his press conference this afternoon that “over one thousand child victims” were identified in the investigation, but grand jury estimates there were thousands more...." (See "The PA Catholic Sex Abuse Horror" by Rod Dreher, 8/14/18, The American Conservative [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-pa-catholic-sex-abuse-horror/]).

Dreher made particular note of the following: ".... Even when the priests knew they were doing terrible things, even when they wanted to be held accountable, even when they desperately desired for children to be protected from them, the bishops refused. Faced not only with horrifically abused children, but also with abusers who cried out to be restrained, they did nothing. They all but forced the abuse to continue — they could not have done more if they had themselves desired above all things the destruction of lives.... I don’t know how many of these bishops are still alive, but they should be afraid to show their faces in public for the rest of their lives, and spend every waking moment weeping for their sins. In a just world, they would all be in jail.... So when can the bishops really be trusted?... The rot goes so deep, and goes back so long. If there were similar investigative grand juries empaneled in every state, what would they find? Do we really believe that Pennsylvania is an island of corruption unto itself?..."